SUMMER TIME: TEACHER EDITION


We are half way over our summer holidays and there is a lot of work to do and lots of things to read.

I survived my first (out of my own school and with my teacher friends as the audience) presentation and it was AWESOME.  i'm so happy to be able to share with other teachers all the amazing things I've learned and experienced in the learning to read field. And moreover, seeing that this can be of any help to other teachers makes me incredibly happy.


   
MORE EXCITING NEWS: I've been offered the opportunity to give an extended course on phonics in October and November in two different cities in my area!!!!

So now it is time to start to freak out and prepare material for a 15 hour-course.



ON OTHER NEWS:
I'm spending my mornings reading and learning about brain based approach. THESE BOOKS ARE BRILLIANT. Can't wait to put all this into practice with my kiddos in september.

 

Summer is also full of great time outdoors, at the beach, in the countryside with my family and friends, going out and spending time with my adorable one.

TRYING TO KEEP MYSELF ORGANIZED

Organization is my everyday battle. Papers everywhere, units and project activities and ideas, kids info and assessment....

During the past two weekends I organized my classroom folder, my projects resources box and my phonics folders:


KINDERGARTEN WORK ORGANIZATION

This the folder where I keep all the activities and ideas for our class work. They are organized by topics.














In the resources box I store all the worksheets, posters, flashcards and manipulatives in folders by topic.



and in this boxes I keep the books and stories by theme.

PHONICS FOLDER:
This is the first one of my phonics folders. It is the one i'm using with my three year old students. We work on alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness. I store activities descriptions and materials to be used.







MY CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOLDER:
on the left you can see the classroom management folder and on the right my weekly schedule notebook. in the second one I program my classes:

 I have my timetable attached. As we work in a bilingual school, my spanish cotutor and I share two classes. (the blues and the yellows).
 this is how i organize my weeks: i colore the square according to the class i will be in and write down the programmed activities.

Now you can take a look at the inside of the classroom management folder:

I have the class music, my timetable and both classes timetables:
 STUDENTS INFO SECTION:
 kids photos so if we have a substitute they will know the kids faces:
we also have a kids info sheet that i forgot to take a picture of.
individual meetings info: we write downs families preferred time for individual meeting (morning or noon)
e-mail adresses:
bus and canteen kids: we keep record of the kids staying at the canteen or going by bus.
we write down if the kids brought to school the materials needed at the beginning of the school year:
ANNUAL PROGRAM, RUTINES AND BEHAVIOR , CENTER WORK...
Our annual program with the objectives of the school year set by the law and adapted at school.





This document is very important for us as we write down what we have been working on and in which language. So we know if we are missing something or if we work too much on something.

STUDENTS ASSESSMENT:
notes about kids performance in specific activities at centers:
In here we also have kids term evaluation, and teacher meeting notes on the kids. as well as projects and units evaluations.

BIRTHDAY NOTES: when it's their birthdat kids bring a special snack for their classmates so we inform parents through this form:


hopefully i'll be pretty organized next year.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS and ALPHABET RECOGNITION GAMES.

Through Phonemic Awareness activities we try to help our students learn to different the different sounds in the spoken world. We don't deal with the written word just with the sounds.

We also work on alphabet recognition activities where we help our students associate those sounds to print.



SOUND TRAIN:
In this game kids had to help the words with a specific sound pattern get in the train






STAMP A SOUND:
In this activity kids named the pictures and recognized the printed letter that represents it to then stamp it:




SNAP GAME:
we do a gesture and kids haveto snap the letter, say the sound and a word in english containing it.


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